Re: [xmonad] [jv@informatik.uni-bonn.de: xmonad entry for HCAR November 2009]

16 Nov 2009

      On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Don Stewart  wrote:
...
Can someone revise the HCAR entry?
----- Forwarded message from Janis Voigtländer  -----
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:14:46 +0100
From: Janis Voigtländer 
To: dons@cse.unsw.edu.au
Subject: xmonad entry for HCAR November 2009
Dear Don,
The xmonad entry for the Haskell Communities and Activities Report is
already quite old. I had hoped for an updated entry for the upcoming
edition. If you let me know, there is still a bit of time to produce a
revision. For reference, below is the old entry.
Best regards,
Janis.
\begin{hcarentry}{xmonad}
\label{xmonad}
\report{Don Stewart}%05/08
\status{active development}
\makeheader
xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged
automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximizing
screen use. Window manager features are accessible from the keyboard: a
mouse is optional. xmonad is written, configured, and extensible in
Haskell. Custom layout algorithms, key bindings, and other extensions may
be written by the user in config files. Layouts are applied
dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace.
Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled on several
physical screens.
The new release 0.7 of xmonad added full support for the GNOME and KDE
desktops, and adoption continues to grow, with binary packages of xmonad
available for all major distributions.
\FurtherReading
\begin{compactitem}
\item Homepage:
 \url{http://xmonad.org/}
\item Darcs source:
 \texttt{darcs get} \url{http://code.haskell.org/xmonad}
\item IRC channel:
 \verb+#xmonad @ irc.freenode.org+
\item Mailing list:
 \email{xmonad@haskell.org}
\end{compactitem}
\end{hcarentry}
If anyone wants to do it, the relevant links are:

- http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.7
- http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.8
- http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.9

Quickly eyeballing, important changes include:

- XMonad.Config.PlainConfig (and its splitting off to xmonad-light)
- local modules ("Supports using local modules in xmonad.hs For
example: to use definitions from
~/.xmonad/lib/XMonad/Stack/MyAdditions.hs")
- --restart CLI option
- Util.Rplace
-- Prompt has customizable keymaps
- Actions.GridSelect
- Actions.OnScreen
- Actions.SpawnOn
- xmonad-extra
- bluetile

-- 
gwern

Re: [xmonad] [jv@informatik.uni-bonn.de: xmonad entry for HCAR November 2009]

Gwern Branwen